How could I possibly be a better person without her than with her? Later, I thought: but he is just echoing Nietzsche's line about what doesn't kill us making us stronger. And as it happens, I have lo...
He gave the impression that he believed in things. We did too—it was just that we wanted to believe in our own things, rather than what had been decided for us. Hence what we thought of as our cleansi...
He became nervous, things blurred in his mind, and he would sometimes make a decision simply in order to have the matter settled rather than because he knew what he wanted.
For here is the final tormenting, unanswerable question: what is success in mourning? Does it lie in remembering or in forgetting? A staying still or a moving on? Or some combination of both?
Film-makers and actors can only show a version of the act, but writers can express what people are thinking, feeling, as well as doing.
Fearless to the strong; humble to the weak,
Está la cuestión de la soledad. Pero no es como te la imaginas (si alguna vez has intentado imaginarla). Hay dos tipos de soledad esenciales: la de quienes no han encontrado a nadie a quien amar, y la...
Early on, she had told him, tenderly, that she had been attracted to him because he was pure and open. But if this didn’t make her love him as much as he loved her, then he wished it were otherwise. N...
Constantly he went back over the evidence of his memories.
But then lovers always assume that people are on their side.
But if being on the level didn't shield you from pain, maybe it was better to be up in the clouds.
Belki de her türlü ortak motifi ortadan kaldıran keder daha da fazlasını ortadan kaldırıyor: ortak motiflerin var olduğuna olan inancı.
Because love is the meeting point of truth and magic. Truth, as in photography; magic, as in ballooning.
Be to, tas skausmas truko neilgai. Kaip minėjau, turiu stiprų savisaugos instinktą. Man pavyko išstumti Veroniką iš širdies ir iš gyvenimo
At best you have one of those debilitating conditions which come in many forms, and which some people decline to admit actually exist.
And that’s a life, isn’t it? Some achievements and some disappointments.
And so, by the end, you have tried soft love and tough love, feelings and reason, truth and lies, promises and threats, hope and stoicism.
Ah, the rheumy-eyed grandpa on the terraces inducting the lad into the mysteries of soccer: how to loathe people wearing different coloured shirts, how to feign injury, how to blow your snot onto the...
After a long analysis of Robson’s suicide, we concluded that it could only be considered philosophical in an arithmetical sense of the term: he, being about to cause an increase of one in the human po...
Aeronautics did not lead to democracy, unless budget airlines count.